We turned our boss into a robot

Culture Trip's Editor In Chief experiments with telecommuting by channeling his inner robot. Over a 6 week period, he managed the team remotely via a mid-level telepresence robot that resembles an iPads on sticks.Telepresence robots have been around for a few years now, but they haven’t captured consumer interest like drones, or GoPro cameras, or similar gadgetry. Most people who encounter a telepresence robot will do so at a tech company, where they’re often tolerated as novelty gizmos or the indulgence of a geographically distant executive. There are arguments for telepresence in remote education and elder caregiving, but these haven’t caught on significantly compared to the office use case we explore in this video.